Ayesel – BEST MINIMAP for Minecraft? (Journey Map vs Xaero’s Minimap)

Hey guys i’m isil and welcome back to another modded minecraft video today i’m going to answer the question that has been asked by so many people which mod is better xerox minimap or journeymap mod this video is going to be a final answer in that question which of these two mods

Is better but we’ve got to look at everything in these two mods before we can come to a conclusion as to which of these mods is the best mod a lot of this will come down to preference and my own preference is biased so you’ve got to take that for what it is

And hopefully you’ll agree with my decision at the end of this video what are journey map mod and what are xero’s minimap well to start with they are what you see on top of the screen there a little mini-map it gives you a map of the surrounding area and as you’re

Traveling around the world you can see in the mini-map it’s opening up those areas so you can see exactly what is in the surrounding areas around you so both of them have this feature which is revealing the world around you they also have underneath the mini map the coordinates for where you are

And it also tells you the biome the one extra feature that is in the top of the journey map which is the circular one on the right hand side it gives you the daytime so it’ll tell you whether it’s turning the sunset into daytime etc there is a little bit more detail on

Xero’s mini-map if you zoom in you can see that it’s got little white dots and that’s actually showing flowers and that’s an option that can be turned on the icons are very similar for the person one is red one is blue one feature that i do like on journey map

Mod and that is it shows you the icons little face of what you’re looking at so i can see that there’s a skeleton ahead of me however i don’t know what level it’s at i can see this sheep up ahead of me and i can also see that there’s cows up

Ahead of me in that direction i can see on the xero’s mini map that there’s yellow icons and red icons red denotes that they’re hostile mobs and yellow denotes that they are friendly mobs like cows etc it also gives you a little bit more detail

As to how many mobs are there which is a little bit harder to tell on journey map mod that’s the minimap part of this each of these mods also has a corresponding world map this is journey maps as you can see it’s an expanded version of the minimap xeros has exactly the same

It’s got an expanded version of the minimap the difference between these two mods is that a journey back mod has the world map as part of the mod whereas xero’s mini-map has a different download for the world map it’s called xeros world map so it’s actually two mods both

Mods have loads and loads of settings but before we look at the settings let’s take a look at how popular are these mods well journey map has over 141 million downloads it’s one of the most popular downloads for all of minecraft i think it actually ranks as number three

For all downloads both are available in fabric and forge this is for forge right now and of course i will put the download links for journey map xerox mini map and xero’s world map in the description of this video journey map is made by tech brew and the author i believe is mystic

Drew and xero’s mini map and world map are made by zero 96 they’re both available on course forge let’s look at the settings and this is where they do differentiate a little bit first off we’re going to look at journey map mod the screen here is quite

Intuitive you can turn it from day to night settings so if it is night time this will automatically change you can change it today if you want to see the map here it’ll tell you the biomes so you can see the biome splits you can also see the topography you can

Also see cave layers and you can change the chunk levels in those cave layers you can also show mobs on the screen and you can turn off the mobs you can also change the style of this you can change the colors and i like this feature

You can zoom in with your mouse wheel and each of these squares is a chunk if you don’t know where you are in the map you can just press this button on the left hand side that says follow and it’ll click on you there you’ve also got an auto map feature

Which for any explored areas that aren’t fully explored you can click on this and you can click on all or missing it will not reveal everything in the world just areas that you’ve traveled into and you can click that and it will remap for you it isn’t perfect and i believe it only

Works on areas that you have entered and you’ve had line of sight on but it does reveal so many areas you’ve got waypoint features in journeymap as well by clicking on this we can create a new waypoint and i’m going to save this as spawn even though i don’t think this is

My spawn you can change the colors of the text you’ve got a little icon here and if i go back out on the mini map you can see spawn you can also enable waypoint beacons so if you’re looking for your spawn you’ve got a waypoint beacon

Now is that any different to the xero’s minimap not entirely but the gui is a little bit different for both you have a north south east and west west over here you have your x y and z axis you don’t get the little mob icons

But you do get a full settings in here as well you’ve also got waypoints over in the right-hand side you have some controls and as you can see here if you want to create a waypoint you have to press b to create a new waypoint

Or you can press plus to click to create a quick temporary waypoint you can also unset that by pressing b it will give you the area where you want to put the waypoint and i’m going to put this one a spawn also press confirm and i’ve now got a spawn wave point over

Here on this location so both of these are in similar locations as you can see this is the one from xerox minimap this is the one from journeymap if i do go behind a hill i can still see both so they’re viewable i do have the beacon from journeymapmod but i can

Still see the zeros minimap and i can see the distance to it the one thing i will say about zeros is the text is much clearer than it is on journey map so that is an advantage for people who may be hard of sight as you can see

I’ve got spawn and i’ve got spawn here from zeros and from also from journey map i can teleport to the waypoint on journeymap just go into the menu click on waypoints and teleport that’ll bring me right to the spawn point there i can do exactly the same however for

Xeros minimap i just need to hover over the waypoint right click and teleport or i can just press t on it both are visible on the minimap one as an s and the other one as spawn you can change the colors of them you can disable

The beacon but when i disable the beacon as you can see i can no longer now see the waypoints in the real world i can see it however in the minimap and i can also see it in the world map so the features for both xeros minimap and

Journeymapmod are very similar they give you waypoints they give you a minimap they give you a world map they give you advanced settings and the settings are quite advanced if you want to get into them you can change the size of your minimap if you wish you can turn your

Mini map on and off you can change the size but as i said to a large one or have it really small if you want to change the shape of it you can set it to both circle obviously you don’t need to have both mods in your mod pack because they do

Pretty much exactly the same thing if you want to change the journey map to a square you can and if you want to move them on your screen you can that’s actually quite easy journey map you just go into your mini map and you change the position

And you can literally just drag it around and put it wherever you want and that is very similar as well for xero’s mini map change position and you can just move it around to wherever you want so the big question is which of these two mods is the better mod xero’s mini

Map and world map are journey map mod well i know my answer to that and i’m not going to give it to you because i don’t think that would be very fair these are two great mods by two great authors and i would love to know

Which of these two you prefer in your mod packs they are super mods and they’re bought really well built both of these mods have been around for an awful long time xero’s mini map has been around since 1.7.10 it has between the world map and the minimap it has got 64 million downloads

Journey map mod has got over 140 million downloads journey map mod is available all the way back from 1.00 so this is one of the first mods that has been out from minecraft and i honestly couldn’t give you my preference guys you can tell by my streams and the

Videos that i make which one i do prefer to have my modpack but if i had either it really is a throw up if i had a modpack that downloaded and it had zeros mini map in it i wouldn’t be bothered if it had journey map mod in it i wouldn’t

Be bothered both of them are very easy to use the waypoint system the teleportation system is very similar so for me really it is very difficult to put a finger on which of these two is better so i’m going to leave the decision up to you as to which you think

Is the better mod for any modpack series minimap or journeymap mod anyway guys that’s it for me isil i hope you enjoyed this video and the showcase for both xerox minimap and journeymapmod and thank you very much for watching this i hope you enjoyed it make sure to leave a

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